Atytographic register



May 19, 1931.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed 0a.. 20. lake M y 19, 1931.. M. KRAUTH 1 8 5 AUTOGRAPHIC REGI STER Patented May 19, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MABIEWILLIAM KRAUTH, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO KRAU'IH & BENNING- HOFEN, F HAMILTON, OHIO AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER,

Application filed October 20, 1928. Serial No. 313,918.

7 This invention relates to improvements in autographic registers or manifolding machines, particularly for manifolding and dispensing shipping or sales bills, and the like.

In such types of machines the shipping or sales-bills, as form lengths, are represented as strips of paper, either reel wound or folded into a packet, and dispensed indefinite measured proportions corresponding to the indi- 10 vidual shipping or sales bills lengths and severed from the strips.

For manifolding upon the several strips of a group, manifolding or carbon paper is placed between the several strips generally 18 for the portion 'over a writing table. The

' frictional pull of the strips when advanced or moved over the stationary carbon paper and across the free edgethereof, tends to curl or injure the edge. I

It is, therefore, an object of the invention to provide a shield for the strip receiving edge of the carbon paper, and in the provision of a' shield composed of pliable leaves engaged over the edge and lapping the pposite sides of the carbon paper.

Another object of the invention is to deposit a record strip, as fed or drawn over a writing table and taken from a supply packet, the supply packet formed by zigzag folding'of the strip, into a storage compartment of the machine and repacketed, the refolding accomplished automatically with the feeding advance of the strip, and to have the two packets as prefolded and refolded lie immediately longitudinally adjacent one another within the body or casing of the machine below the strip feeding mechanism and writing table and preferably in separate compartments therefor. The strip is unfolded from one packet and refolded into another packet in an orderly manner at anyrate of speed under which the strip may be fed. The arrangement provides for compactness, offers freedom in the movement of the strip inunfold ing and refolding and the packets are easily accessible for insertion or removal.

, Other objects and features of the invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is atop plan view of an autographic register containing the present im- 7 provement, with the lid or marginal frame compartment, refolding the paper in packet formas substantially received from the supply packet.

Flgure 5 is a detail perspective view of the devices for protecting one edge of the manifolding or carbon paper at the rear end of the writing table.

The machine is primarily adapted for feeding and dispensing form lengths of paper as shipping or sales bills in manifolding service, wherein a plurality of record strips or webs are disposed in superposed arrangement upon a writing table, each strip having feed arresting apertures, the apertures of the different strips being of such arrangement as to register with each other in successive longitudinally related sets, and are advanced over the writing table and dispensed by feed rollers or other mechanical feeding mechanism in definite measured lengths governed by said aperture spacing.

The feed or advance is suspended When the feeding mechanism is in cooperation with a set of apertures, requiring a manual restarting for a successive feeding and dispensing operation.

- In the present disclosure, the feeding mechanism is of the roller type, comprising an upper roll 1 depressingly journalled at its opposite ends in the side frames 2-2 of the machine, the roll having peripheral contact with a pair of annuli or disks 33 fixed upon a shaft 4 journalled in fixed bearings in the side frames 22. '1 he roll 1 and shaft 4 are in transmission connection by gearing.

The disks 33 occupy a spaced relation corresponding to the crosswise spacing of a set of apertures in the web, so that when the apertures in the advancing movement of the strip reach the disks, the advance is automaticaliy suspended. The apertures interrupt the feeding or bearing contact of the feedrolls with the paper and, therefore, are ineffective to transmit the paper with their rotation.

This operation applies to all of the strips employed in a manifolding group, irrespective of their number; whenever the arresting apertures of the several strips are brought in registry with the feeding rolls. Thus, the several strips can be advanced in differential lengths, depending upon the relative longitudinal spacing of the apertures, but all brought to rest when in registry and in cooperation with the feed rolls. For a successive advance, manually controlled or tripped starting mechanism is brought into action for advancing the strips sufliciently to dispel the apertures from the feed arresting relation with the feed rolls and again bring the feeding rolls into contact with the paper, whereupon they again take hold and transmit the paper until a successive set i of apertures in the strips are reached.

In conjunction with the annuli, pin devices are employed, mounted upon a shaft 5 to engage through the registering apertures in cooperation with the annuli to positively withhold the strips against advance or dis-- placement, and also to serve to bring the strips and form printing into registration and alignment. The pin devices are operated through and with the control of the starting mechanism, so that the pins are withdrawn initially to the starting of the strips and ready to engage into a successive set of apertures.

Full detail of construction of the starting mechanism and pin devices is not shown h erein as these features are embodied'in commercial machines well-known in the art, and do not form a art of the present invention.

For mani olding service, sheets or webs of carbon or manifolding paper 6'are disposed between the severalform containing strips 8 of a group, and primarily for the area thereof lying to the Writing table, and following the common practice in this art for furnishmg a manifolding paper supply service for the number required for a group of form strips employed in the machine, the manifoldmg paper is reel wound into a multi-web roll and deposited within a tray or receptacle holder disposed at one side of the machine and longitudinally thereof. In the present instance the holder is attached or integrally combined with a writing table 10, as a sheet metal plate, extending across the-top of the machine, and at its rear end hinged to the side frames adapting the table to be swun upwardly for convenience in threading or oading the machine.

The several sheets or webs of carbon paper extend crosswise over the writing table and between the several form stri s, and clamped in position by a flanged longitudinal edge of a margin frame 11 hinged at its rear end to the side frames and lying over the writing table, the margin frame providing a cover for the rear portion of the machine.

To prevent the rear edges of the carbon paper to curl or become injured during the feeding motion of the form strips as they move across the edge of and onto the carbon paper, shields 12 of. a pliable material are lapped over the edges of the carbon paper marginally covering both upper and under sides thereof approximately for the full width of the form strips, protecting the edges of the carbon pa er and guiding the form strips over the car on paper.

These shields are preferably formed of a pliable metal, assoft brass sheets, cloth-celluloid and others, looped around a cross rod 13 to provide a pair of extending leaves between which the rear edge of a carbon sheet is disposed. The rods 13 also serve as guides for the form strips over which they loop in extending from the supply source housed within the body or compartment of the machine below the writing table and margin frame. A guide rod 13 is employed for each strip of the group so that each is individually guided over the rear end of the writing table as the strips are drawn from thesupply compartment.

As shown, the guide rods or shield supports are mounted at their opposite ends within bars 14-14 respectively fixed to the underside of the writing table. The guard leaves in being looped over the supporting rods are free to swing thereon, facilitating in loading the machine. I

The strip' supply is arranged in packet or pad form, comprising a plurality of record strips folded zigzag, the folds of one interen aged with those of the other, so as to divic e superposed sets of superposedv leaves connected end to end. The stripe at the lines folded are weakened to facilitate in packeting, and provide a uared edge .pad or package and also serve or conveniently refolding and packeting, automatically within the machine, one or more of the strips after manifolding, which are not dispensed from the machine.

In the present machine, the supply and refolded packets are compactly housed within respective compartments in the body of the machine immediately adjacent one another and in longitudinal order, renderin the packets easily accessible with the refolded packet approximately centrally below the feeding rol'ls, facilitating the refolding progressively with the feed of the strip into the storage compartment and irrespective of the speed at which it is fed.

Both packets are inserted or removed from the top of the machine, the supply packet be- Ill ing deposited in the supply compartment 15 at the rear half of the machine by raising the margin frame and writing table and the refolded record packet removed'from the coinpartlnent 16 at the forward half of the machine by raising the sectional cover 17 covering the top of the machine forward of the feed rolls.

The strips in group from the supply packet 18 are threaded over a guide rod 19, the rod having its opposite ends supported in the side frames and located forward of the end of the supply compartment, so that one set of leaves, representing the portion between the folds, is completely withdrawn to the end of the fold before any pull is exerted to the successive set of leaves.

From thence the strips'pass relatively over their respective guide rods 13 to and over the writing table and between the feed rolls, with the, record strip threaded downwardly as it leaves the feed rolls over a guide rod 20 having its opposite ends secured in the side frames and beneath a curved guard 21 depending from the rear section 22 of the sectional cover 17, the guard directing the strip into the storage compartment 16 in a manner at which the strip isrefolded along the weakened lines of the fold and in the packet form irrespective of the speed at which the strips are advanced.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a machine of the character disclosed, a casing including a writin table for supporting a plurality of recor strips in superposed relation, with manifolding paper disposed between the strips, the manifoldingpaper held stationary and the record strips for dispensing drawn longitudinally over the table across the manifolding paper, a shield marginally covering; an edge of the mani'-' folding paper at thefiapproaching side with' respect to the direction of strip motion and crosswise thereof, the shield comprisin a platen and equipped with aprons; and a carbon-strip supply mounted at one side of the casing from which carbon-strips may extend across the platen, the end-portions of said aprons serving to engage and protect the adf jacent edge-portions of said carbon-stri s.

4. In a register: a casing provided wltha packet compartment; a platen supported by said casing over which paper-webs are drawn sheet of pliable material looped to provi e a pair of leaves for marginally engagln about an edge of manifolding paper, and a tationary cross rod mounted in said casing engaged between the leaves of said shield hingedly supporting the shield.

2. In a register: a casing provided with a packet-compartment; a platen supported by said casing over which paper-webs are drawn from the packet; a source of carbon-strip supply at one side of! the casing from which transverse carbon-strips may be drawn; and 8 transverse guide over which the paperwebs pass from the packet to the platen, said guide being equipped with an apron extending therefrom adapted to overlap and pro-' tect the edge-portion of an underlying carhon-strip.

3. In a register: a casing equipped with a platen; a sourceof supply for paper-webs within said casing; transverse guides interposed between the source ofsupply and the 

